Newspaper headlines: Fall of Assad and the future of Syria ...

Most of Monday's papers lead with the ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following an armed rebellion against his 24-year rule. The Financial Times calls it a "stunning offensive" by the rebels. The FT reports on the "euphoria" of Syrians, with Omar Seif, 24, saying: "Today, I can breathe for the first time."

"Assad falls... but what now?" is the question the Metro asks. The paper says the line from Moscow - which backed the Syrian regime militarily in recent years, is that Assad left after talks with "other participants in the conflict." One of the accompanying pictures on the paper's front page is of a rebel sitting at the ousted president's desk, which is still covered in maps.

The i goes with a full-page picture of a woman waving a Syrian rebel flag above her head - with the paper saying the opposition forces declared "victory for Islamic nation". The paper says people ransacked the presidential palace, while refugees abroad crowded the country's borders in the hope of returning home.

The Daily Express headline says there is "delight in Syria", saying refugees in neighbouring Lebanon hailed the coup. The paper reports that thousands of Syrians took to the streets chanting "Assad is gone". The paper's front page picture shows Syrians smiling with their arms held up in victory.

Sounding a note of caution, the Daily Mail asks "Is worse to come?". It quotes US President Joe Biden calling the toppling of the Assad regime "a moment of risk and uncertainty" which the paper says is down to the Syrian rebels' "grim record of terrorism".

The Daily Telegraph says Israel has "seized territory on the border and bombed military targets" in Syria, saying action is needed to stem new threats. Israel already occupies the Golan Heights - historically part of Syria - and has now taken control of the buffer zone after Assad's soldiers abandoned their posts.

The Guardian reflects on "celebrations across Syria" with crowds of people waving flags and pulling down portraits and statues of Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad. "Celebratory gunfire and car horns" echoed around the capital, according to the paper. As well as the Assad family fleeing, the road linking Damascus to the Lebanese capital Beirut was "lined with discarded army uniforms", the Guardian adds.

The Times presents a series of stills, showing the toppling of a statue of Bashar al-Assad's late father, former President Hafez al-Assad. "Syrians hail the fall of Assad", the headline reads, as rebels freed prisoners - many who had been locked up because they opposed the regime. Women and children were among those released, the Times says, adding that families across the country were hoping to find family who were among the "tens of thousands" who disappeared during Syria's 13-year civil war.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror leads with the mother of Liz Hatton, the 17-year-old photographer and terminally ill cancer patient who hugged the Princess of Wales in October. Victoria Robayna thanked the princess for making her daughter's "dreams come true" during her final months before she died.

"Tis the season to be jolly windy", the Daily Star says, adding that winds of up to 70mph could cause Christmas travel chaos. The paper says the winds will "sweep in" from the Atlantic over the coming weeks.

The fall of Bashar al-Assad and the future of Syria dominates the front pages.

The Financial Times calls the ousting of Assad a "welcome end to a brutal Middle East dynasty" - and a "new chapter". The FT reports on the "euphoria" sweeping the streets of Damascus. Omar Seif, a 24-year-old waiter, tells the paper that, for every one of those years, he's had Assad's "boot" on his neck, keeping him down. "But today? I can breathe for the first time," he says.

The Guardian says the people of Syria are "daring to dream of a better future", after five decades of dynastic rule came to a sudden and unexpected end. It talks of army tanks, that were supposed to stop the lightning rebel offensive, standing empty in front of checkpoints. The paper says that, out of habit, one driver stopped at a checkpoint and rolled down the window. "No more checkpoints, no more bribes," the smiling man tells the Guardian's reporter, before speeding off.

"Downfall of the devil," proclaims the Sun, reporting on what it calls a "free-for-all" by looters grabbing valuables in the presidential palace yesterday. "Louis Vuitton suitcases packed with... souvenirs and trinkets snatched from the first lady's boudoir were seen being wheeled away," according to the paper.

The Daily Express headline talks of "delight in Syria as rebels force Assad to flee to Russia". But it adds that the world is "watching nervously... as players in the powder-keg Middle East vie for supremacy, amid fears that leaderless Syria may erupt again in full-blown civil war".

The Times says that "some of the saddest scenes", repeated around the country, were of elderly women waiting as buses and lorries arrived carrying men freed by rebels from the regime's most feared jails. One woman in Aleppo tells the paper she's heard nothing of her son since 2012. The Times adds that she appeared to be waiting "more in hope than expectation".

The Daily Telegraph's defence and foreign affairs editor, Con Coughlin, writes that the "humiliating collapse" of Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime was a fitting end for a man who he says was "always trying to overcompensate for his evident unsuitability for the role". The paper says world leaders have welcomed Assad's fall, but have warned of the rebels' record of terrorism and human rights abuse.

Other papers also express doubts about Syria's future.

The main headline in the Daily Mail poses the question: "Is worse to come?" Writing in the paper, Mark Almond, from the Crisis Research Institute in Oxford, says that the lawlessness after the fall of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya in 2011 is a "terrible warning from history".

Finally, the Telegraph reports on what it calls the King's surprise at Buckingham Palace for a group of "Coronation Girls" from Canada. The paper says none of them could have imagined that 70 years after attending the late Queen's coronation they would reunite in London and be greeted by the King "beaming from ear to ear". Cup of tea in hand, the paper says, he reminisced about his mother's coronation and even joked about "feeling slightly anxious" about the heavy weight of the crown - and it wobbling - at his own ceremony last year.